Last week, the Zone 2 Command in Onikan, Lagos State, brainstormed on possible ways to transform policing within the zone into a more modern and democratized manner.

Some residents of Kirikiri Creek-View Estate who were recently alleged to be hatching plans to blow up Kirikiri Tank Farms by one Babatunde Shabi have cried out over what they tagged ‘dubious, malicious, defamatory and scandalous’ allegations against them stating that the alarm was a grand design to retain the ‘criminally domineering relevance of their accusers.

The police in Onitsha, Anambra State have arrested two suspects who alleged robbed a Lagos- based journalist , Emeka Mamah near the Niger Bridge about two weeks ago.

To 54-year-old Patrick Nwabuebo, a veteran taxi driver who have cruised the nooks and crannies of highbrow areas in Ikeja, Lagos State, there was no iota of premonition of what befell him on Tuesday, 16th August, 2011, which turned out to be his last day on earth.

We are tired of this kind of policing. Is this the way to police a community; incessantly raiding and harassing innocent persons, extorting and manhandling hapless people? No. I do not think this is how policemen should behave towards those they are supposed to protect and safeguard.